A Lifetime Wellbeing Index: Happiness Weighted by Life Expectancy

The Cantril ladder captures how satisfied people report feeling with their lives right now, but it says nothing about how long they live. A simple composite index — Cantril score multiplied by life expectancy at birth — adds that second dimension. This post constructs that index, plots it against GDP per capita, and examines within-country trends across the same five-period panel used in Income…